Apr 21
Owen JonesUncategorized alarm systems, business, consumer electronics, elderly care, family, happiness, home, home accessories, home business, Interior Design, other, retirement, security, Uncategorized
Security is an essential aspect of life, but then it always has been. It is normal for parents to do their best to take care of their families and it is normal and even a legal requirement for an employer to ensure the safety of his or her staff. Part of the way we carry out these duties is to secure the environment in which we live and work – our homes and our offices or other places of work.
A good security system for our homes and businesses is often an electronic system. Windows and doors – ie possible entry points – will be monitored by sensors. In order to maintain an operational security system, it is necessary to use a regularly changed password system. In a home the keypad will usually be numeric only, but you should change the password at least every month and possibly even every week.
For example, if you have teenage children or older, they will be bringing friends back. These friends will be able to see you child entering the password. This can be even more serious if the person is a boyfriend or girlfriend who subsequently gets dumped.
Similarly in an office or other place of work, it is a good idea to have pass cards that can be canceled if the employee leaves the firm. A lot of harm is caused every year to material goods by disgruntled ex-employees and ex boy- and girlfriends.
You can help passers-by and police by leaving some light on inside your building. Frequent passers-by, neighbours and police will get accustomed to seeing lights on, so if a burglar switches them off, they will become suspicious.
Burglars do not like light. Similarly, do not let bushes, shrubs or trees hide possible entry points. Keep them cut back so that people can see any doubtful activity. You would be astonished how many people just sit in their windows all day watching.
Outdoor security lighting is an excellent way of deterring intruders at night. Install a few solar garden lights that are activated by passive infra red motion sensors and they will be inexpensive to run. The good thing about them is that they do not announce their presence to the would be intruder, but they will catch him or her in a floodlight when he enters your property.
Another suggestion is to nail carpet gripper just under the top edge on the inside of your garden fence. Anyone trying to haul himself up over your fence will have a very horrible shock and leave DNA for the police.
If your business or home has an open door policy in order to allow clients or your kids to walk in, install doorbells or chimes that are triggered by under carpet sensors, door sensors or PIR’s, so that employees or family can not be caught by surprise. It is very useful, because if your busy secretary doubles as a greeter of walk-in clients, it will guarantee that she does not miss anybody or keeps anybody waiting.
Owen Jones, the writer of this writer, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with home security systems comparison. If you are interested in Security Systems For Home Use, please click through to our site.
Apr 12
Owen JonesUncategorized alarm systems, Boundary Walls, Broken Glass, Burglar, Burglars, business, consumer electronics, elderly care, Electronic Surveillance Systems, External Doors, family, Flower Pot, Fruit Bowl, Garage Doors, happiness, Hinges, home, home accessories, home business, Home Security Window, Interior Design, Ladder Chain, Neighbour, Nosy Neighbours, other, Plants And Bushes, retirement, security, Spare Key, Spare Keys, Teenage Kids, Uncategorized, Window Frame, Windows And Doors
When people think of home security, they are inclined to think of electronic surveillance systems. However, there are other ways to protect yourself and your family from injury and burglars. I will give you my top ten tips for home security.
1] Windows are really the key to home security. Window-stays become loose or sloppy as they get older and now and then you can get a window-stay to jump off its peg by thumping the outside window frame. Fit window stay locks
2] Doors must be robust, well-hung on solid hinges and have secure locks. Fit deadlocks, particularly on external doors.
3] Spare keys should not be secreted near the door under a mat, a flower pot or a stone. If you want to leave a key with a neighbour, select the neighbour cautiously. Be wary of those with teenage kids, their friends may become aware that the spare key in the fruit bowl is to your house.
4] Tools that can help a burglar must be locked away. Keep your shed and garage doors locked and if you have a ladder, chain and lock it to a fixed point like a wall.
5] Dogs are useful for home security, but they should not be relied on. Some thieves will poison a dog to get in. If you leave your dog in the house, get a box to fit inside your door to collect whatever comes in, lock the letter box closed or seal it off for good. If you leave the dog in the garden, try to get a neighbour to check up on it from time to time.
6] Plants and bushes should not be allowed to grow big enough to block anyone’s view of windows and doors. Passers-by and ‘nosy neighbours’ are a big disincentive to burglars, but if no one can see a ground floor widow, the burglar can gain access unobserved. if you do want bushes under your windows, make them tough, thorny ones.
7] Boundary walls or fences are your first line of defense. They can be a good deterrent, if you get the style right. Some people embed broken glass into the top of the wall, but this can be against the law and can hurt unwary cats. The best thing to do is nail carpet-gripper just below the top, inside lip of the wall. Anyone putting their hands over the wall to pull themselves up will get a very horrible shock and leave DNA.
8] Valuables should not be put on show near windows. Your house is your home not a presentation case. Put your TV, DVD player and video recorder in a cabinet, maybe get a safe for your valuables but conceal that too.
9] External lighting is a key part of nocturnal security. Get garden lights that are activated by motion (microwave) or heat (passive infra red), put at least one on each external wall of your house.
10] Electronic surveillance systems are a necessity these days. You do not need cameras, but they are helpful for identifying intruders. Your home security system can be wired or wireless, monitored or not.
These top ten home security tips should prevent your home from becoming an easy target for burglars.
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with wired home security systems. If you are interested in Security Systems For Home Use, please click through to our site.
Apr 10
Matt BuddLondon business, cleaning, crime, crime prevention, home, house, London, office, property, security, Window Cleaners
Millions of dollars go down the drain annually due to con artists. For this reason the growing menace of con men posing as window cleaners and what you can do to ensure your safety are vital considerations. The elderly population are specifically vulnerable to this kind of crime against property.
Deception theft is on the rise in the UK too. Some of the elderly people victimized by these thieves do not want to report to the authorities for various reasons. The cases reported in UK reached 16,000 in 1998.
Policemen however think that the actual number could be around five times the reported cases because elderly people are fearful for their lives and choose to remain silent. Another reason cited is they do not want their kids to worry and move them to assisted living or home cares.
A number of incidents involve situations where callers used all kinds of excuses just to be able to enter the home and loot the place. When faced with this situation, the most plausible thing to do in cases like this, is to ask for an official ID from the caller before letting him in. If they cannot produce an identification card then call the police so you can have his identity verified.
When confronted with cases like this, you should remain alert and keep your wits about you. If the person insists or tries to persuade you some more, you should listen to what your instincts are telling you. If you smell something fishy about the whole thing, then most likely the callers are fake cleaners. Never open the door immediately and let the strangers in. You should confirm their identity first by calling the window cleaning company they work for before letting them inside your property.
Your door must have a peephole so you can tell who is behind the door. Installing a door chain might not be an effective solution since thieves can easily break it. Refrain from hiding keys outside the door like in a plant box. Thieves can spot the keys easily. You cannot allow them to walk conveniently through your door. These steps could help you avoid the growing menace of con men posing as window cleaners and what you can do to ensure your safety.
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Apr 09
Owen JonesUncategorized alarm systems, Armed Robbers, Blunder, Brainer, Bulbs, Bungalow, Burglars, Bushes, business, consumer electronics, Drawing The Curtains, elderly care, Exterior Lighting, Exterior Security, family, happiness, home, home accessories, home business, Home Security System, Interior Design, Neighbour, O Clock, other, Poor Lighting, Premises, retirement, security, Security Lighting, Shrubs, Sorry Issue, Target, Thief, Uncategorized
It is quite natural that we all want to keep our homes and businesses safe and well looked after, but there are many ways in which this can be accomplished. The cheapest and most cost effective way is exterior security lighting
It truly is a no brainer, poor lighting can make a home or business a much more appealing target than the house next door because it has less satisfactory exterior security lighting. Burglars look for dimly lit points of entry into premises that appear to contain riches, so when you are designing the security system for your home or business you should try to think like a thief.
Look at your premises from the outside, or look at someone else’s first and ask yourself, how you would get in there if you had to. Pretend that you forgot your keys or that there is a serious problem in your office. How would you get in? This is where the criminal gets in and you must find out how to obstruct his every move.
Ten years ago, I lived in a bungalow alone with my small, knee-high dog and armed robbers attacked me in my home, in spite of the fact that I had a reasonable home security system. Do not let it happen to you. My blunder was that I had inadequate exterior security lighting.
They had severed my phone line during the day and because I used a cell phone for most of my calls, I did not notice. Also my dog was sick, but I did not appreciate that she had been poisoned too. At eleven o’clock at night there was a ring on the front door and I opened it, thinking that it was a neighbour in distress.
A man fought his way in and over-powered me and the rest was not pleasant. However, the whole sorry issue could have been prevented, if I had thought like them..
I was in the habit of drawing the curtains when I got home, so I did not notice that they had removed the bulbs from my exterior security lighting as well.
My advice is to check your exterior security lighting every night when you get home and keep the bushes or shrubs cut low around your front and back doors. Make sure that your exterior security lighting is working every evening and make sure that you can see who is buzzing your door bell.
Provide your garden and your doors with plenty of light. Let them be on motion sensors and check who is at your door from a side window that looks out onto the front door. I had a beautiful frosted glass pane in my front door, but that is no good. I could not identify anyone through it.
Have a panic button fitted by your doors, a big one, so that if you are surprised you can swipe out and still hit it and above all make your next door neighbours aware that if your external siren sounds, that you are in trouble and that you need assistance straight away. If you are not in trouble, you can always apologize later.
Owen Jones, the author of this writer, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with home security systems comparison. If you are interested in Security Systems For Home Use, please click through to our site.
Apr 07
Owen JonesUncategorized alarm systems, Alarms, Benefit, Burglars, business, Business People, consumer electronics, Criminals, Doors And Windows, elderly care, Emergency Situations, family, Fire And Smoke, happiness, home, home accessories, home business, Interior Design, Many Things, Monitoring Services, New Security, other, Panic Button, Precious Assets, retirement, Risk, security, Security Bars, Security Doors, Spite, Time And Place, Traditional Alarm Systems, Uncategorized
There are many things that families and businesses do in order to safeguard their property. One technique that is often taken in the name of security is the addition of security bars to doors and windows. In spite of the inherent benefits of securing property, these bars often present risks of endangering the people inside.
One thing remains accurate, most burglars will keep moving rather than attempt entering into a home that has security bars on doors and windows. Home protection is the only security that these bars supply however for many, the risks involved in having these bars on windows is not worth the small measure of security that is provided. In other words, the good of these bars is really outweighed by the negatives.
A lot of people do not purchase new security bars but rather rely on the same bars that have covered the windows of the home or business for many years. Some of these are rusted and virtually impossible to take away. In emergency situations, every second matters and these bars can be the very things that trap people inside a burning or flooding structure.
Security bars are no longer the cheap alternative to traditional alarm systems and monitoring services that they were touted to be in the past. In fact, more often than not the pose a greater risk than they are a benefit to business and homeowners. Many larger businesses offer free fitting of alarm systems and alarms as well as monthly monitoring services at reasonable rates. More significantly not only are these monitoring services available for breaks-in, but also for fire and smoke as well as panic button services.
Security bars may have had a time and place, but they have been replaced by something that is much more effectual at deterring criminals as well as something that offers a greater degree of protection for the most precious assets of any home or business – the people inside. The costs concerned in monthly monitoring seem great but most will find that the value this service provides if and when it is ever called upon is well worth every penny.
Options to burglar bars that are not terribly expensive include planting thorny bushes below windows and keeping them trimmed back just enough that they do not block a view of the windows. Most burglars do not want a difficult entry point and they certainly do not want to be wounded during the process by prickly plants. Lighting is another option that is essentially less expensive than it would be to install burglar bars. Intruders do not want to be seen. If the area surrounding your home and business is well lit, it will serve as a deterrent. Investigate options such as this before resorting to security bars.
To answer the question of whether or not security bars are worth the risks for home or business protection the answer would be a resounding “No!”. There are other preventative measures that can be taken in order to discourage intruders that present far less risk to family members and employees. These alternatives should be undertaken rather than those that pose additional risks to those you are trying to look after.
Owen Jones, the writer of this writer, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with home security systems comparison. If you are interested in Security Systems For Home Use, please click through to our site.
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